Buy PokerStars Hand Histories

Some poker rooms consider buying hand histories to be an unfair advantage. I don't have the time to stay up to date with the changes the poker rooms make to their T&Cs, so be sure to check them yourself.

List of sites where you can buy PokerStars hand histories.

If you're ready to buy hand histories for PokerStars now, we recommend Poker Table Ratings. They have the widest coverage of games, variations and stakes and are competitively priced.

Buy PokerStars hand histories.

We've purchased a lot of hand histories over the last few years, both as players and as reviewers for www.pokerdatamining.net. If there was one conclusion that we could come up with, it'd be this -- some datamining sites are better than others are for specific poker sites. It's weird; these sites cover the same rooms, but don't have the same coverage. What's up with that?

And that's definitely the case in regards to PokerStars.

PokerStars has increased their offerings over the last couple of years. They've added new sit and go tournaments, new cap cash game variations and launched French and Italian new clients.

So why does this matter?

Well, as I mentioned above, not every datamining site has the same coverage. So your specific needs will dictate exactly what site you should use for purchasing your hand histories.

With that being said, I've explained below the sites we recommend using for PokerStars hand histories, including their positive and negative attributes.

Poker Table Ratings

I feel that Poker Table Ratings (PTR) is the best overall choice for purchasing hand histories from PokerStars. They cover a wider variety of games, betting structures, formats and languages.

Although Poker Table Ratings will be good for just about anyone, in particular they're going to be good for sit and go tournament players. They cover fixed, no limit and pot limit games and anywhere from 2 to 10 players. Variations they cover include knockouts, turbo and double or nothings. You won't find any other hand history site that covers any form of tournaments.

PTR also provides hand histories from PokerStars (.fr) French client. No one else does this either.

Buy PokerStars hand histories from Poker Table Ratings.

Read the full review of Poker Table Ratings.

Hand-Histories.com

Hand-Histories.com would be my next choice. However, I do feel that they're a distant 2nd behind PTR.

But let's start with what they do well. For PokerStars games, they cover a large range of stakes -- up to nl500. Hand-Histories.com also datamines cap cash games. Only a few sites do this.

Where Hand-Histories.com lacks is where almost any other hand datamining site lacks (other than PTP); they don't have French or sit and go tourney hand histories.

Please note: Hand-Histories.com lists all of their prices in Euros. Be sure to keep this in mind if you're shopping around.

Buy hand hand histories from Hand-Histories.com.

Read the full review of Hand-Histories.com.

Hand HQ

Hand HQ used to be one our top recommended sites for PokerStars. But they haven't been stepping it up. So they're best used as a backup.

On the plus side, they're good for higher stakes. They mine hands up to 2000nl. This won't matter to a majority of players, but it's good to know you have a place to for those hand histories regardless. The process of buying hand histories from Hand HQ is very easy too -- this is always a bonus.

On the downside, they don't cover PokerStars cap cash games or sit and go's. They don't have French hand histories either.

Buy hand histories from Hand HQ.

Read the full review of Hand HQ.

Summary: Best Place to Buy PokerStars Hands

Poker Table Ratings is definitely my go-to choice for PokerStars hand histories. They simply have the broadest coverage of all datamining sites.

That being said, all 3 are good choices if you don't have much in the way of specific needs. They are all quick in delivering hand histories, have several payment options and are competitively priced. And the hand histories work without a problem (in our tests) in Holdem Manager and Poker Tracker. So overall, you can't go wrong with using Poker Table Ratings, Hand-Histories.com or Hand HQ for your PokerStars hand history needs.